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Daughters-in-law

After her youngest son, and last one to marry, brings home his wife, Rachel feels her role of family matriarch slipping away and must deal with the loss that comes with it, while maintaining the relationships she holds dear. 650 0 $a Mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law $v Fiction.

Short-listed for Galaxy National Book Awards: Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2011

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Joanna Trollope.

Abstract:

When you've dedicated your life to your children, what happens when they grow up? Rachel loves being at the centre of her large family. She has devoted herself fiercely to bringing up her three sons, but at their childhood home on the wide, bird-haunted coast of Suffolk, Rachel finds that her control begins to slip away.Read more...

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"We love Trollope's novels and await each new one with excitement" * HEAT * "Supremely sure of her material and purpose, compassionate but never sentimental" * THE SUNDAY TIMES * "Wonderfully observed and readable" * THE TIMES * "Infallibly elegant... All this lies beneath the sparkling, well groomed surface of a novel which could quite easily be read as a light diversion for an idle afternoon. But look more closely and something as grim as Greek tragedy is played out around the cosy family dinner table" -- Jane Shilling * DAILY TELEGRAPH * "As ever, Trollope writes about family life with wit, intelligence and verve" * GUARDIAN *Read more...